Children & Families - Senior Social Worker

Nations Recruitment; Newport; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in the UK is seeking experienced social workers to join a Fostering Team in Newport. Social workers will provide essential support to foster carers, conduct home visits, and ensure adherence to National Minimum Fostering Standards. This role offers 37 hours per week with an immediate start, offering a competitive hourly rate of £31.50. A hybrid working arrangement allows social workers to work from the office three days a week.

Qualifications

• Experience in social work within a fostering context is essential.
• Strong communication skills for working with carers and children.
• Ability to conduct home visits and assessments.

Responsibilities

• Join the Fostering Team as a social worker.
• Provide support and advice to foster carers.
• Make regular visits to foster carers’ homes.
• Assess and raise safeguarding concerns.
• Attend meetings related to fostered children's welfare.

Skills

Providing support and advice to foster carers

Communication with social workers and families

Conducting assessments

Understanding of National Minimum Fostering Standards

Job description

Overview

Job Category: Social Care Qualified

Job location: County Hall, High Street, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 1UD

United Kingdom

Isle of Wight Council

Hours per week: 37

Start date: Immediate start

Salary: £31.50 per hour

Responsibilities

• We are looking for x2 social workers to join our Fostering Team.
• Providing support and advice to foster carers – mainstream and kinship carers (hybrid case work).
• They will keep in regular communication with the child’s SWs, the fostered child/ren, foster carers own children.
• Make regular visits to the foster carers’ homes – announced and unannounced.
• Support with home finding for the children needing to come into care – alongside the placement team and CSW.
• Assessing the services/support the foster carers will need to care for the fostered child.
• Providing regular supervision – this will include identifying training needs/opportunities.
• Ensuring the foster home meets all the development needs of the child/ren living with the carer.
• Assessing and raising concerns whether there are safeguarding and/or standards of care matters.
• Write foster carers annual reviews.
• Attend appropriate meetings – the fostered child’s Reviews Meetings, Support/Stability Meetings and any other as appropriate (PEPs).
• Attend Foster Panel as required.
• Cover day time duty rota.
• Ensure DBS, Health Assessments, Safer Caring Policy and other related household checks are in place and the Foster Carer Agreement is updated.
• Ensuring that the foster carer is working to and meeting all the National Minimum Fostering Standards (NMS) in their practice.
• There is a hybrid working arrangement in place where the Team have access to their office space 3 days a week with one day mandatory in the office which is currently on Wednesdays to attend team/service meetings.

Notes

Further details on role requirements and expected qualifications may be provided during the selection process.